The 70's, The 80's, The 90's, The (?)

[Garland]

Will we call it "The 10's?" The first decade of the 21st century, that is. It somehow doesn't sound right. Also, when we get to the 30's, how do you think we'll refer to the 20's? After all, the 1920's are already a decade that many can commonly refer to, and simply saying the 20's will imply 1920's rather than 2020's to most people. I don't think the Y2K problem was nearly as potentially serious as the confusion the decade naming situation will cause. I don't know why I'm thinking of this. Pretty useless, but hopefully something humorous will come of the solution.

[Meat Puppet]

Two thousand hundreds, two thousand tens, two thousand twenties. All the up to maybe the 50's or 60's, which by then, thankfully, the 20th century will be forgotten and hopefully I'll be dead.

[eestlinc]

maybe we will evolve as a species and stop being so fixated on arbitrary time demarcations.

[Meat Puppet]

Humans aren't that perfect, they will just say "oh three" and "oh four" and "oh five" etc,.

[Nait]

The twenty twenties?

[pixie_demon]

i dont have a bloody clue

to tell u the truth i hadnt thought of it...

now it is going to drive me insane till we come up with a good name....

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[o_O]

I predict the human race will stop counting in base ten, and switch to base six instead, making it possible to signal the four digit year using your hands.

We will then move on to base two, and spend the rest of eternity speaking in binary.

[Nait]

OH GOD, SOMEONE ELSE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE VALUE OF BASE SIX!


Thank you, Face! Thank you!


But base two, no.

[Agent Proto]

We should call the current decade the "thousands" because we're always hearing people say "two-thousand one" for 2001, "two-thousand four" for 2004, and etc.

Of course, keeping the "two-thousand" will make saying 2011 and later a mouthfull, so I'm going to say that people will start using twenty-eleven, twenty-twelve, twenty-thirty-seven, etc.

[Rainecloud]

Simple. The Eighties, the Nineties and the Naughties.

[Flying Mullet]

I agree with called then the naughts, but Rainecloud made it sound so much cooler.

[Mikztsu]

I'd go with "zerozeros"

[Fuzakeru]

Oh yeah. When I'm older I'll be waiting for the VH1 special, "I love the naughties."

[eestlinc]

let's hope VH1 doesn't exist by then.

[Breine]

Probably something like The 00's...? I dont know.